So where we're at is that it's hosted, but we're still organising the data. Scraping the document IDs automatically is difficult as they move around inside the documents, they are not terribly consistent in format, and many documents don't have visible part numbers at all. Many uploaders were nice enough to name their files after the Volvo part number of the document, but even then I expect 99% of visitors will want to filter by model and/or year, which is again not easy to automatically pluck from the documents with certainty.

We played around with indexing, we chucked the whole lot into ES and used Ambar as a frontend, but it was resource-intensive and also not actually terribly useful, as in a bunch of my scenarios I was looking for something like "rivet" but Volvo call it something really generic like "retaining fastener". It was good at finding wiring diagrams though.

Anyway, so we ditched Ambar, now we're looking at ES Service with Searchkit as a frontend out of S3.

If we don't get that working to a satisfactory level in the next few days, we'll switch to the alternative approach, which is recruit a bunch of people to go through the documents and mark them up in a spreadsheet, than have a script break it all up into useful metadata and organise the files from that.

If we go the mechanical turk route, I'll post here looking for some volunteers to help out.

As an aside, "final" count is 14.6GB and 2190 documents/images after auto deduplication, but we've found there are some documents that sneak through (i.e. they're the same actual document but scanned by different people).

Why don't you just post a library of GreenBooks .pdf files with labels as to models/years and Volvo subject. Trying to create an universal searchable database is far beyond my needs. If you want me to add the GB part number to the 19 files I uploaded I would be happy to but no one would search on that.

Okay to clarify, that is what we're doing, and the end result will either be exactly that or that + searching. But either way we have to actually create all those labels because right now we have 2000+ files with names like "100.pdf", which as it turns out is a 1964 122S marketing brochure introducing the availability of automatic transmissions.

So the "just give them model/year labels" is most of the work. With search indexing, the indexer is very smart and does most of the work for you.

The work to tag all the files has stalled as everyone seems to have either lost interest or is just busy. I myself have no time at the moment as I'm organising a meet here in Australia. That's a month away, once it's done with I think I'll just spend a Saturday finishing it off, but if anyone wants to help in the meantime let me know.

Once it's all tagged I'll be able to generate a basic organisation of documents and put it all online.

I'm happy to host any info on the site here. As for the old green manuals, I cant host them locally on the server here but i could probably set up a torrent tracker link or something if people wanted to go peer to peer?

I loved the site for all the different configurations for the headlights, I was trying to figure out the best setup for my 1988 245 and he had all the information I needed for the swap to the quad round headlights from the previous body generation. I know you guys are focused on recovering the technical manuals, but if you can find the time to recreate the customization information he had posted it would help get the next generation us going.

I loved the site for all the different configurations for the headlights, I was trying to figure out the best setup for my 1988 245 and he had all the information I needed for the swap to the quad round headlights from the previous body generation. I know you guys are focused on recovering the technical manuals, but if you can find the time to recreate the customization information he had posted it would help get the next generation us going.

@ropo: Can you upload a single rar file with all the pdfs temporary until the major project is complete? Never believed such a nice website would go offline, so i never downloaded them.. Maybe to a big file sharing place ? Or google drive ?

@ropo: Can you upload a single rar file with all the pdfs temporary until the major project is complete? Never believed such a nice website would go offline, so i never downloaded them.. Maybe to a big file sharing place ? Or google drive ?

Got 1TB free space at Stack.
Will upload them and share a link in the coming days.

When I bought my 240 it came with a slew of big green volvo books. I never bothered to look at them well because Google exists. Would it help if I gave them to one of you guys lol? Ill never read them honestly.

I got them going to hiperfauto as he messaged me first and was willing to scan them. Testpoint, was there a specific book you were looking for?

Thanks, but I think that I have pretty much everything I need for both a 240 and 260 purchased off ebay over the years both as .pdf files and paper media.

My preference would be that they all be available on-line for those that are trying to get involved with maintaining these old treasures.

Sincerely disappointed with the results of our friends in Oz's efforts to make this information available. If they cannot host the information they should share their efforts with the several that have volunteered to do so.

Thanks, but I think that I have pretty much everything I need for both a 240 and 260 purchased off ebay over the years both as .pdf files and paper media.

My preference would be that they all be available on-line for those that are trying to get involved with maintaining these old treasures.

Sincerely disappointed with the results of our friends in Oz's efforts to make this information available. If they cannot host the information they should share their efforts with the several that have volunteered to do so.

Gotcha...im a little late to the party is the issue mainly hosting a new website or just simply hosting the PDFs?

Gotcha...im a little late to the party is the issue mainly hosting a new website or just simply hosting the PDFs?

There was a web site for many years, K-jet.org, that hosted most of the greenbooks for the free benefit of all. They suddenly shut down and deleted all the vast library of information without explanation. This current effort is to recreate and augment that information.

jamesinc volunteered to coordinate the effort to restore and enhance the Volvo information (see post #31) back in April '17. Many of us contributed our personal .pdf files down loaded from K-jet.com and other places to that effort.

Sincerely disappointed with the results of our friends in Oz's efforts to make this information available. If they cannot host the information they should share their efforts with the several that have volunteered to do so.

All the docs have been hosted for months, they're just not generally available to people outside of the archiving project, and they won't be until we finish marking them up. You're welcome to help, as is anyone else interested. It's been hard to get people to stay interested, I think they quickly realise that marking up a thousand odd documents is actually an enormous task and quit after doing 20 or so.

But we have hundreds in our spreadsheet currently, which is at least enough for me to create a generally accessible portal for accessing them.

It's not a trivial task, doing all this work, so again, save your disappointment and lend a hand, or don't.